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Musk Announces New Science Policy on Twitter
townhall.com ^ | 12/29/2022 0820 hrs est | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 12/29/2022 7:37:44 AM PST by rktman

Twitter chief Elon Musk announced Wednesday there will be an open exchange of ideas about scientific claims at the social media giant. The new policy is in stark contrast to Twitter's rules prior to Musk's takeover, where questioning official narratives on COVID-19, the vaccines, transgender issues and more could result in suspension or outright bans.

“New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science,” he wrote.

In response to professor Gad Saad mocking Fauci's claim that attacks on him are attacks on science, Musk said anyone who makes such a claim "cannot be regarded as a scientist."

The announcement comes after the billionaire took a shot at Dr. Anthony Fauci earlier this week over another conflict of interest - highlighting his wife's role at the National Institutes of Health.

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Lying liars calling deniers liars most affected. There is NO settled science.
1 posted on 12/29/2022 7:37:44 AM PST by rktman
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Maybe there’s still a little hope the truth that the massive fraud that is the climate BS can be exposed before the entire western world is plunged into misery.


2 posted on 12/29/2022 7:42:42 AM PST by iamgalt
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Questioning the narrative based on evidential observations is the foundation of scientific inquiry.


3 posted on 12/29/2022 7:42:54 AM PST by circlecity
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To: iamgalt

Probably too much money involved with CLIMAGEDDON! profiteering.


4 posted on 12/29/2022 7:45:33 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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So we’re allowed to say that the earth goes around the sun now?


5 posted on 12/29/2022 7:48:42 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: circlecity

Correct, though too many think it’s based on consensus.


6 posted on 12/29/2022 7:50:07 AM PST by EEGator
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To: rktman

The left is working overtime to take down Musk. The onslaught is formidable and on multiple fronts, the attack on Tesla is the centerpiece. The left is making buying a Tesla seem to be the moral equivalent of voting Republican, which is pure poison to most potential EV buyers.

I will be very surprised if Musk survives all this.


7 posted on 12/29/2022 7:51:09 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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In response to professor Gad Saad mocking Fauci's claim that attacks on him are attacks on science, Musk said anyone who makes such a claim "cannot be regarded as a scientist.".

Ha! This is Musk calling out Fauci for being a quack.

8 posted on 12/29/2022 7:51:46 AM PST by FreeReign
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I’m so glad he’s doing these things, but I hope he understands the danger he is putting himself in, or he go the way of so many Russian oligarchs before him.


9 posted on 12/29/2022 7:52:20 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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Science should always be questioned. That is how the human race learns.


10 posted on 12/29/2022 7:52:46 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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Glad that I can now challenge the Flat Earth Society!


11 posted on 12/29/2022 7:55:31 AM PST by pookie18 (You don’t have to be high on crack to enjoy Pookie’s Toons! - Tell It Right)
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Scientists all around the world should be ashamed that they allowed the fraud in the first place. For centuries, scientists have held up Galileo as the model scientist. He questioned the teachings of his day. He went against the “official thinking” and paid a price for it. But he understood that asking questions is what science is all about.

Modern scientists seems to be as enlightened as the Medieval Church. Shame on them.


12 posted on 12/29/2022 7:57:34 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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We were all going to freeze. We were all going to burn up. We are all going to flood because of change. Science has always been an evolving quest that needs to be questioned.


13 posted on 12/29/2022 7:58:51 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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God Bless Elon Musk.

The right to have an oposing viewpoint, and the ability to express that view, is how we all learn and advance.

14 posted on 12/29/2022 7:59:00 AM PST by FatherofFive (I support Trump. Not the GOP)
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The NIH paid out $2.1 million to “URGE ETHIOPIANS TO WEAR SHOES”.

Fauci’s wife is as much a corrupt person as he is.


15 posted on 12/29/2022 8:01:29 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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Musk said anyone who makes such a claim [i.e., Fauci] "cannot be regarded as a scientist."

Yes!! Musk is fantastic. He is fearless. I just hope Fauci doesn't call up all the forces of darkness in his netherworld to come down on Musk.

16 posted on 12/29/2022 8:02:16 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker)
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Who could have ever predicted a half decade ago, that Mr Green Super Hero could possibly morph into public enemy number one three orders of magnitude more oranger than captain bad orange man himself?


17 posted on 12/29/2022 8:02:36 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: circlecity

Absolutely.

This is a good point to share an observation. The current adult generation of narrowly educated people has been taught that the world is viewed either as Scientific-Rationalistic or as Theological-Superstitious and that “educated” people should be choosing Scientific.

As Marcello Pera (writing with Cardinal Ratzinger) advised us, the entire history of Western Thought has shown us that intelligence rests on a three legged stool. The legs are Science, Theology and Ethics. These answer the Great Questions: What am I allowed to know. For what am I allowed to hope. Lastly, how should I behave.

This false claim that science is in opposition to Theology and Morals-Ethics is purely ignoring the history of western thinking.


18 posted on 12/29/2022 8:09:49 AM PST by KC Burke
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Can we start with the antiquated ideas of Charles Lyell. You know, before we knew just how unscientific he was.


19 posted on 12/29/2022 8:14:13 AM PST by momincombatboots (QEphesians 6... who you are really at war wit)
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Fake science is part of the Leftist religion, and skepticism is heresy.

Under “Leftist sharia,” the punishment for everything is death (if they can get away with it, or as close as possible).


20 posted on 12/29/2022 8:19:11 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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